Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective

Edited by Mamoru Saito

Description

This book examines the syntax of Japanese in comparison with other Asian languages within the Principles-and-Parameters framework. It grows out of a collaborative research project on comparative syntax pursued at the Center for Linguistics at Nanzan University from 2008-2013, in collaboration with researchers at Tsing Hua (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Connecticut, EFL U. (Hyderabad, India), Siena, and Cambridge.

In ten chapters, the book compares the syntax of Japanese to that of Chinese, Korean, Turkish, Hindi, and Malayalam, focusing on ellipsis, movement, and Case. The first three chapters compare nominal structures in Japanese and Chinese and account for the differences between them. An important point of comparison in these chapters is the patterns of
N'-ellipsis the two languages exhibit. The subsequent two chapters focus on ellipsis. One examines argument ellipsis in Japanese, Turkish, and Chinese, and argues for its correlation with the absence of

Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective

Edited by Mamoru Saito

Table of Contents

Preface1 N¢-Ellipsis and the Structure of Noun Phrases in Chinese and Japanese Mamoru Saito, T.-H. Jonah Lin, and Keiko Murasugi2 Number and Classifier Yasuki Ueda3 On Chinese and Japanese Relative Clauses and NP-Ellipsis Yoichi Miyamoto4 Argument Ellipsis, Anti-agreement, and Scrambling Daiko Takahashi5 A Comparative Syntax of Ellipsis in Japanese and Korean Mamoru Saito and Duk-Ho An6 A Comparative Approach to Japanese Postposing Yuji Takano7 Comparative Remarks on Wh-adverbials in Situ in Japanese and Chinese Tomohiro Fujii, Kensuke Takita, Barry Chung-Yu Yang, and Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai8 On Multiple Wh-Questions with 'Why' in Japanese and Chinese Kensuke Takita and Barry Chung-Yu Yang9
Dative/Genitive Subjects in Japanese: A Comparative Perspective Hideki Kishimoto10 Dative Subjects and Impersonals in Null-Subject Languages Hiroyuki Ura